Thought experiments on birds

Paul B. Conn

EURING Technical Meeting, 21 April, 2023

CKMR: Possible challenges with birds

Pair bonding dynamics

  • Possible issues?

  • How to alleviate assumption violations?

CKMR: Possible challenges with birds

Dependence in fates and spatial dependence

  • Are kin pairs likely to share the same fate / be sampled together?

  • How to alleviate assumption violations?

CKMR: Possible challenges with birds

Ages or lack thereof

  • Only juvenile age known with certainty?

  • Epigenetic aging?

  • Strategies for modeling?

CKMR: Possible challenges with birds

Sampling

-How to get high quality tissue samples?

-Sample sizes for large populations

CKMR: Nous avons finis!!

Merci!!

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